Around 40,000 Americans die each year due to gunshots so what did Americans do at the start of the Coronavirus? While we were queuing for toilet rolls they were queuing to buy more guns. No lockdown in the States due to gun deaths.
China population 1.4 billion and only 4,600 deaths (if you believe that). Some thing early on went horribly wrong in both the UK and the US
We are not a Communist state where they could shut off parts of the country and duff up the locals who broke restrictions.